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From: Dale To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <28e1c23b-46d3-e0d5-f4ec-3166bc124c03@gmail.com> Message-ID: Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 03:23:31 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0 SeaMonkey/2.49.4.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 8923901c-b51d-465b-a059-8ffd16af5003 X-Archives-Hash: ddb88009f0e7ea53244f8f65c65d191b Dale wrote: > Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> I did a upgrade recently and after that, plasmashell is consuming a huge >> amount of memory.  I noticed it at one point and it was taking about >> 8GBs.  I killed it and restarted but it seems to keep happening after a >> few hours.  After I took a nap, I nudged the monitor back to the on >> state only to notice it had eaten so much memory that the system killed >> plasmashell and I had to restart it then.  It also made other programs >> go to swap since it was full as well.  Glad the system dealt with it >> instead of just crashing the whole thing.  >> >> After I restart it, it goes back to normal, a few hundred megabytes, but >> slowly starts increasing again.  It gets old having to either logout or >> restart the thing.  >> >> Has anyone else noticed this happening on their systems?  If not, I may >> rename .kde4 and see if that helps.  Maybe a bad or outdated config.  >> >> Currently on: >> >> kde-plasma/plasma-workspace-5.10.5-r1 >> >> Was on: >> >> kde-plasma/plasma-workspace-5.10.5 >> >> It seems it was a Gentoo upgrade based on the -r1.  >> >> Thanks. >> >> Dale >> >> :-)  :-)  >> > > Just a FYI for anyone else having this issue.  I just upgraded and it is > still doing the same thing.  I'd think if it was a bug in the package > that it would be fixed.  > > I think I'm going to try renaming .kde4 and see if a fresh start helps > with this problem.  > > Dale > > :-)  :-)  > Well, giving it a fresh start may have made it worse.  It used to go a day or so and now, I have to restart the thing every few hours.  When I restart it uses about 2% of memory, maybe a little less.  After just a few hours, it is already up to 7% and headed to 8%.  Thing is, it seems to grow faster as it goes.  Currently on: plasma-workspace-5.11.0 If anyone runs up on this in a search, I'm not aware of a solution, yet.  Dale :-)  :-)